Street-car motor



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- J. HILL..

. STREET GAR MOTOR. No. 262,044. Patented Aug; 1, T882,

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STREET-'CAR MOTOR.

' SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 262,044, dated August1, 1882.

Application filed May l0, 1882.

To all 'whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOSEPH HILL, of Wil-]iamsport,in the county ofLycoming and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvementl in Street-Gar Motors; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of thesaine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

My invention, which is hereinafter described and illustrated, relates toimprovements in steam-motors for street-railroad cars; and it consistsmainly in the novel combination ofthe operative parts, all as more fullyhereinafter described.

For the better comprehension of my invention, reference will be madethroughout the following description to the accompanying drawings,in-which- Figure 1 is an elevation of my street-car; Fig. 2, a view frombeneath of the bottom ot' the same.

Like letters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, the car proper, which is of usual construction, isrepresented by the letter A. It has mounted on its front platform ajacketed boiler, B, and under its rear platform 'a water-tank, which ismarked O, and which is connected by means of pipes, hereinaftermentioned, with the supplementary watentanks D D, mounted upon the roofof the ear. Ot' the tanks D D, above referred to, only one is shown inthe drawings, Fig. 1. As shown in that iigure, connection is madebetween them and the tank G by means of the pipes ca, (only one shown,)which Vare located near the rear end of the car. These pipes areprovided, as shown, with suitable check-valves, a. To facilitate theiilling of the tanks D D they are connected by means of the pipo a2,which extends across the top of the car from one to the other. By meansot' this connection between the two the water, which is poured into one,passes through the pipe a2 and fills both. The

closed tank C is connected by means of suitl able pipes, a a, with thecondensers E E, which are situated near the opposite or front end of thecar. The principal purpose of mounting these supplementary tanks D D onthe top of the car is to give a water-pressure in tank U.

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Under the seats of the car are located suitable engines, F F, whichcommunicate motive power through suitable sprocket-gears, now

to be described. The pistons c e of these engines act as pitmen, and areconnected at one i around the remaining portion of this wheelf4 and thewheel f2 a second chainj, is passed. By this construction, upon therevolution of the wheel f, the rear wheels ofthe car, through the mediumof the chain f3, are caused to revolve, and the lfront wheels at thesame time are revolved by thechain f4.

From the dome ofthe boiler B, which is of ordinary construction, livesteam is carried down through a vertical pipe, g, into a cross-pipe, g.Frein this cross-pipe g' the steam enters bent pipes g2, Fig. l, throughwhich it is carried into the cylinders of the engines F F. The eX-liaust-steam left in these cylinders is carried oi through suitablepipes, Lchaud through them enters the condensers E E, before mentioned,

and in which the feed-water pipes are contained. After passing throughthese condensers the exhauststeam enters a pipe, g4, snitablylocated andconnected with said condensers, thence'through a deadeuer, g5, to whichsaid pipe is connected, into the flues of the boiler, after which vitescapes through the smokestack G.

' The deadener g5, above referred to, consists of a section of largerubber or other iieXible hose, and by its use the sound of escaping steam is destroyed as said deadener takes up 7 the sound. The constructionof this deadener is not herein claimed, as it is intended Vto be madethe subject of a separate application for a patent.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, andthat for which I desire to secure Letters Patent. is

1. In combination with the lboiler of a street- TCO car motor, theWatertank C, Watersupply Tbis'speeioation signed and witnessed thispipes a a., oondensers E E, and deadener g5, 12th day of April, 1882.'

substantially as and for the purposes sei; forth.

2. In combination with the boiler of a. street- JOSEPH HILL' 5 carmotor, the water-tankO and snpplemen- Witnesses:

tary tanks D D, substantially as and for the M. J. GLAGETT, purposesdescribed. GEO. H. QOOPER, Jr.

